Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?
The other option is bombing kids.
The other option is creating a reliable, high quality product that people want and creates value for the user. This was how most businesses operated before Jack Fucking Welch.
But it’s easier to force slop, ads, and slop-made ads on people.
…subscription services? For everything?
That’s just the money their making itself. When it comes down to what are we subscribing for, it keeps being ads again. They keep deciding that subscriptions make money by removing ads.
Like, why not subscriptions that actually add something gainful? Subscribe to stream your games to any TV, subscribe to get dog food delivered to your house monthly, subscribe to Socks of the Month Club. Those things exist in other industries, but tech?? Nope, it’s just ads, or subscribe to less ads.
Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where “your friend” suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends
Jesus. Delet this.
Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).
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Black Mirror with Rashida Jones
Oh wild, good call
Lol who downvoted you but not me?
Lol, I want to believe it was someone who wanted to slow the spread of this concept in the world, lashing out against it the only way they could.
That said I’ve def bookmarked that episode for watching. I lost track of Black MIrror, it’s a bit tough in that it’s so grim that each episode doesn’t really leave you wanting to watch the next one in my experience. But it’s had some bangers.
That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).
Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.
After having watched it (it was good, watched it with the buddy who had the idea and without telling him why we were watching it, he had a laugh the first time it happened), if you found it a real struggle, definitely don’t read this article about a real company that made a brain implant for epileptics and went under of which the episode heavily reminded me.
Meh. I just got a phone for free from some company I never heard of.
Best phone I ever had.
Was it apple? I just heard about them last week but they seem expensive
Lol, nah.
This one is Orbic.
“They’re a business and they need to make money.” - useful idiots
Not even useful IMO, just idiots.
I have a galaxy. I disabled the Galaxy AI. I disabled the Google AI on my phone, and I blocked Google search AI. I disabled Microsoft AI. I think ATT has one that listens in on calls to warn you of a call being a scam, but I haven’t figured out how to disable that. Many of my calls are privileged under atty/client privilege, so have someone or something else in on that risks waving that. I want to disable it, but I don’t know how. I tried to disable Yahoo’s email AI. But, now there is yet more AI for me to disable?
Dear tech companies, please stop shoving AI down my throat. I really don’t want it.
risks waving that.
Use a dumb phone or thereabouts, they’re still around.
At that point I’d just get a dumb phone for calls and a tablet with data only SIM for the rest.
Why not a graphene phone?
Only works on Pixels, and I’d rather not give Google any money.
buy used. you aren’t giving them anything more then.
Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I’ve been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.
Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don’t need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
I’m thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
This, the web installer basically does everything for you, so no way to fuck up unless you disconnect the phone during the setup. Also haven’t had any problems with banking apps and the like, though Eventim doesn’t seem to work.
I haven’t had issues with my banking app either but I don’t use the NFC wallet functionality and never have. I prefer to just tap my physical card.
It’s more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
That’s technically true but the default experience would be a challenge for most noobs. It takes a bit of work to get apps for typical stuff, have to go get Fdroid and allow install from other sources etc
You can use the Aurora store for apps. You can also use Google Play for apps if you’re not super privacy minded. The beauty of GrapheneOS is that it doesn’t have to be a locked down security privacy-minded OS if you don’t want it to be. It can be just as functional as anything else with very few exceptions.
It just gives you the option to pursue security and privacy if you want.
Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?
I swear, the rest of my life will just be educating my peers on how consumerist rhetoric does not serve their interests.
That’s crazy.
Anyways I’m gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.
That’s… A really good idea
Time to redesign my phone case
I have one for my pixel 7. I also put a small square of electrical tape over my front camera. I know I sound paranoid, but I just don’t like a camera staring at me while I’m looking at my phone. I also rarely take selfies so a front camera is pretty much pointless for me.
Absolutely wild clown show we’re living in
I was just sitting there looking at the cool art I have as a lockscreen wallpaper and im thinking, man I wish my phone would scan my face and place an ai slop image with my face badly right on my lock screen. Thank god Samsung is so in touch with what features consumers want added to their $1000 devices.
You get ads, you get ads, everyone gets ads!
- Samprah.
Look under your chair… It’s an ad!!
Yay. Because what the world needs right now is more ads
Minority Report, the bad parts.
Edit: glad I’m using a deGoogled Android phone, can’t trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.
